Digital India: Whom Does it Benefit?

I want to add a small point which is very important I think. As almost you all said that Digital India is beneficial for rural area people. But this is not the complete truth, there are many rural areas which is not getting electricity supply and the network problem is in.

Therefore the government should also take a major step towards these.

Digital India is one of the flagship initiative taken by GoI to achieve various interconnected goals mainly.

1. To promote e-governance 2. Digitally empower citizens 3. Restructure government schemes to be made easily accessible to public.

Digital India benefits Indian economy by inclusive growth and boosting GDP of India by electronic manufacturing and employment generation. It benefits mainly all those who want services and information to be accessible digitally which include business groups, students and all common people. They all get benefited in one way or others. Through this various financial transactions, information sharing could be done from anywhere.

Other benefits include increase in digital payments, broadband connectivity to villages, helps in financial inclusion, build smart cities, employment generation in IT sector, ease of doing business, number of internet user increased and most importantly Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) initiative through which poor benefited most of government schemes.

Challenges- 1. Universal access and connectivity 2. Digital literacy 3. Restriction on FDI 4. Cyber security.

Digital India has brought transperancy, accountability but a lot has to be done so that all section of society get benefited by overcoming gap between rural and urban, rich and poor, gender etc.

Hello everyone,

I would like to share my views on digital India. As you know with the implementation of demonetization we are witnessing a huge shift towards digital economy. Our prime minister has launched a large number of schemes which allow us to use internet while transacting. From the past 2 years we have seen people using internet in many activities whether it is shopping online, conversing online through texts, talking online, or ordering a home delivery for something, we are using internet in a wide range of areas. So we can say that India is becoming digitized. Now the question arises whether it is benefiting everyone or not. Well, as you know many poor people who don't have access to a smart phone or a cyber cafe in their locality may not be able to properly utilize this benefit but they are showing interest in learning how to use internet. So I would conclude by saying that those illiterate people would like to get educated on using internet in their daily lives, so this digitization is actually giving them opportunity to learn something new for earning a living because otherwise they might not have been able to learn to operate on internet throughout their lives. So in the long run it is a win-win situation for everyone. Thank you.

Digital India is a good concept to discuss.

One will be waiting in line for transactions in banks.

It also helps in bookingonl8ne tickets. Which is helpful in travelling time.

One can travel all over the world without a single rupee in the pocket as there are many apps for money transactions.

So safety from theft is assured.

Hacking is the problem but is can be overcome with time.

One day India will become full digital India.

No paperwork will have remained.

So many trees are required for papermaking will be saved and which will save the human life.

So the topic is "digital India: whom does it benefit", the answer is people of India. The question should be in which way it is helping. So how it's helping me in daily life I will tell you, earlier for booking a railway ticket I go to a city 30 km away from my home-town, now on my phone at home I can book my ticket, now I can book any kind of ticket online and also cancellation and refund is faster than earlier. For paying any electricity bill, paying at a merchant shop, at the mall is easier. The best thing is you don't have to carry any money with you so the safety of money is also there, booking a hotel, flight. Doing mobile, DTH recharge is all in your hand. Although it has not reached to any part of the rural India it is spreading day by day. As one said technology has it's own benefit and disbenefit, going online also put you at risk of hacking and all.

Hi, I am supporting digital India because it is the best step by our PM Modi. It provides a lot of benefits and thorough the digitalization we don't need to lot of cash in your pocket every time. Through this, we can roam anywhere without any tension and insecurity. And when we need money to pay the bills anywhere digitalization helps us.

Digitalization supports the cashless. By the digitalization, we can pay the bills. Through this, we can transfer the money from one state to another state. It is safer to transfer money one to another easily. By the digitalization, we can pay online electricity bills, order online food.

Digital India is a great initiative taken by our respected PM Modi. I think people are not so much aware about the digital platform mostly rural areas people they can be cheated easily. It will take ample amount of time to figure it out for this generation. But our future generations will not face any problem regarding digitization.

Thanks for the opportunity.

Hello,

Digital India is good or bad? Every debate start because that point constitute both, pros and cons. The positive point is as follow. Digital India campaign started by the Modi government. We can see the benefits of this in our daily routine activity. In today's generation, both husband and wife are doing work, so they haven't too much time to purchase everything from the market. They would by online. One other benefit is that online payment keeps a record of everything, which is also helpful for the tax department.

One negative point is that because of this, Multinational companies sale their product at a lower price and our domestic businessman faced many problems.

Digital India is one of the best initiative taken by our P. M. Modi. This seems that India is putting a step forward towards development. This digital India mainly helps to literate old age people who can't wait and stand hours together in lines at banks. But the main drawback is lack of literacy rate in India mainly in rural areas it will effect more.

I think digital India was a great decision by GOI. The goal of this idea is to connect all the citizen with government. We get notification of many thing like our bank transactions, any goverment scheme easily on net and we don't have to wait to apply any job offline, insted we do such things at our place online.

The pain of standing up in que to get money has also reduced. Because of online transaction corruption has also refuced at some level. All the records of gov data now availalable online, so we can see what happening in acutal. The gap between the gov scheme and citizen has reduced because of it. But only literate people get these advantages. What about the ileterate ? Gov should take an initative to introduce these scheme to iletrate people and should teach how to take advantage of it, because worlds 37% people are illitrate in India.